Just What Is The Agenda Behind The Recent BLM Land Grabs

Are The Feds Trying To Kill Off The Cattle Industry Thereby Bringing The Western States To Their Knees?

It sure looks that way. The BLM war on the Bundys, the grab at the Texas Oklahoma border source Obama's recent Executive Order legalizing BLM actions source  all seem designed to cut off water supplies to starving, thirsty cattle. Utah wants its land back under its control and now, New Mexico is in the mix.

From The New American
"Otero County has taken a strong stance to try to protect our citizens and their rights," the letters read. "To date, the U.S. Forest Service and the Department of Justice have been unwilling to even reasonably compromise to de-escalate the situation and to work cooperatively.”
"This appears to be an uncompromising example of government bullying," the commissioners added.
The ABC News affiliate spoke with Representative Steve Pearce (R-N.M.) regarding the ranchers’ complaints.
"The courts have said the water belongs to the rancher," said Representative Pearce, ABC-7 reports. "It's a drought. Rancher needs to get his water to the cattle. He's gotta walk across 23-acres of forest service land. They've fenced him off to where he can't do it. And that's an abridgment not only of the constitution but also of the court findings."
Although invited, Governor Susana Martinez did not attend the protest, but through a spokesman she indicated that she is “concerned” when federal interference affects the state’s economy.
“The governor values the rights of Otero County residents and ranchers to speak out against recent actions taken by the federal government to fence certain lands,” spokesman Enrique Knell told the Associated Press. “The governor understands county residents’ vested interest in protecting the lands that sustain their livestock, families and property.”
Knell added that Governor Martinez intends to assist both sides in the dispute in coming to a reasonable solution, one that does not “negatively affect the state’s rural economy.”
The rally is the latest effort in the ongoing struggle by landowners and ranchers to save cattle from dying of thirst as a result of the protracted drought that has plagued New Mexico for over a year.

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